Knife-sharpener support.



PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

L. W. CRUGE. KNIFE SHARPBNER SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1904.

Law/"61266 Hdiigzssc f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KNlFE-SHARPENER SUPPORT- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed January 4. 1904. Serial No. 187,712.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE WINLOCK QRUoE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residmg at Marion, in the county of Orittenden and State ofKentucky, have invented a new and useful Knife-Sharpener Support, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for supporting knife-Sharpeners inconvenient positions for use'and from which the sharpener member can bequickly detached when not required, and has for its object to simplifyand improve the construction and produce a supporting device for thesharpener which may be attached to a supporting-body, such as akitchen-table or similar structure, and to which the sharpener may bequickly attached when required and from which it may be removed-when notin use.

WVith this and other objects in view, the nature of which will be betterunderstood as the invention is better understood, the invention consistsin certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, isshown the preferred form of the improved device, and in whichcorresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters; but itwill be understood that the invention is not necessarily limitedthereto, as various changes and modifications may be made thereinwithout departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing anyof its advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all thechanges which may fall within the scope of the invention and the claimmade therefor.

The improved device is designed for use more particularly in kitchensand similar localities for supporting sharpening means for carving,paring, and similar knives and will be attached to some structure in thekitchen, such as a table or the like, and for the purpose ofillustration is shown thus applied.

Figure 1 represents a portion of a table in perspective with theimproved device in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of oneof the attachments and a portion of the sharpening member detached.

The improved device consists of two plates having means, such asscrew-apertures, for

' attachment to the support and each with an upwardly-opening socket forthe sharpening member, so that when the plates are positioned upon atable or other support with the sockets facing each other and spacedapart the length of the sharpener member the latter will rest in thesockets and be supported therein by gravity.

The table 10 may be of anysize or form and the plates 11, in one end ofwhich the sockets 12 are formed, secured thereto by screws 13, thisarrangement permitting the plates to be moved to and from each other,thus to adjust them to a sharpening member of any length. As is wellknown, owing to carelessness hones or stones such as are used inkitchens for sharpening purposes are frequently broken, and owing to theconstruction of the supports a short length of the stone cannot besupported, so that when broken it is generall cast aside as useless.With the support of the present invention adjustment may be effected tosupport a stone of any length, thereby resulting in a what wouldotherwise be lost.

The sharpener member 14 may be of any required shape, and the socketswill conform to the ends of the sharpener, so that when the latter ispositioned in the sockets it will be supported with sufficient firmnessand steadiness to prevent displacement when the knife is whetted over itin the action of sharpening.

When not required, the sharpener can be quickly detached and stored forfurther use, if required. By this simple means the sharpener is at alltimes in position for use if it is desired to leave it upon thesocket-plates, or it can be placed thereon only when reuired for use.

The knife-sharpeners usually employed in kitchens are flat oval intransverse section, and when the device is constructed for that form ofsharpener the sockets will be formed to correspond, and when other formsof sharpeners are employed the socket portions will be modified tocorrespond.

It will be observed that by the structure herein described and shown avery simple, convenient, and easily applied and operated device isproduced which will fulfil all the requirements claimed for it and isadmirably adapted for the purposes set forth herein.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is The combinationwith a sharpening-stone, elliptical in cross-section, of a supporttherefor comprising a pair of disconnected plates provided with meansfor independent atsaving to householders and the utilization oftacliiiient to a suitable support thereby to itself to the differentangular fiosit'iens as- 10' permit of adjustments to and from each sumedby the knife When being sharpened. other to accommodate asharpening-stone of In testimony that I claim the foregoing as anylength, each plate being provided With a my own I have hereto aflixed mysignature in socket conforming in shape and adapted to the presence oftwo Witnesses.

receive the terminals of the sharpening-stone, LAWRENCE WINLOGK CRUOE.the coaction between the stone and the sock- Wltnesses: ets being suchthat the former Will be per- P. S. MAXWELL,

Initted slightly to turn thus to accommodate J. G. ROCHESTER.

